VEGF mRNA levels in placentae from pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1191-1196

  Cooper, Jason C ^a   Sharkey, Andrew M ^a   Charnock Jones, D Stephen ^a   Palmer, Christopher R ^b   Smith, Stephen K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOMETRICS; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PLACENTA FUNCTION; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOKINES; PLACENTA; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTORS, GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 0029808106     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1996.tb09627.x     Document Type: Article

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